Scour is a paid to search program. You are required to install either a Scour toolbar or add Scour search provider to your browser and you are ready to roll and earn from your searches. Scour evaluates results from 3 major search engines, (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and provides you with very relevant search results. So if you decide to join Scour, it’s a win-win situation for you. There’s nothing to loose. Your search results are a combination of results from three top search engines, which means better search results plus you get paid for your effort. What more can you ask for?
How do I join Scour?
Click here to join Scour. Fill in the form, and either install the Scour toolbar or add the Scour search provider to you browser. Considering your safety, I think it’s better to add the Scour search provider to your browser rather than installing the toolbar. The Scour search provider plugin is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 6+ and FireFox 1.5+ browsers.
How much can I earn from Scour?
There are three ways you can earn from Scour. Each registered user can earn points for each search and for each vote and comment they submit for each keyword searched.
You earn the following number of points for each action:
1 for every Search
1 for every Vote
1 for every Comment
For every friend that you invite, you will earn 25% of the points they make! That means, Scour is a great way for you to earn funds from your own searching and you can earn even more if you tell your friends.
How much are the points worth?
For users from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, U.S., and U.K. :
6,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $25.00
12,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $50.00
25,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $100.00
Countries not listed above are still eligible to participate in the following rewards schedule:
50,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for = $5
Is there a max amount of points I can make per day?
Yes, Scour caps the amount of points a user can earn for themselves at 300 per day to protect the network from any malicious or false activity. However, there is no limit to how many friend points you can earn.
How do I get paid?
When you’ve earned enough points (6500) you can redeem them for Visa gift cards sent directly to you.
Are there any guidelines?
Scour website states the following:
To help ensure that user activity is valid and of value to the Scour community, below is a list of excessive behaviors and activities that may result in a reduction of points or a user’s account being banned:
Searching:
Searches of invalid characters:
Example: asdfadfadsfsadfadslkal;kjfdlakjfdalsjfa, $@#%&^%^
Suspicious non-human search patterns: Searches conducted by an automated script
Example: X5648, X5647, X5646, X5645, X5644
Repeated searches
Example: a, ab, abc, abc1
Spam Searches: Excessive one word searches that do not exhibit normal user behavior.
Example: dog, park, vote, starks, green, sand, box, filled
Erratic Searches: Excessive unrelated searches within very short period of times.
Example: Dog, Sony Plasma TV, Einstein, newyek, repsev, newyork,…
Commenting:
Excessive amount of short non-descript comments.
Example: great, i like it, cool, fun etc…
Repeated comments
Example: recommended site, recommended site!, I recommend this site
Invalid words within comments
Example: asdfadfadsfsadfadslkal;kjfdlakjfdalsjfa, $@#%&^%^
Vulgar comments: Profanity or offensive content.
Self promotion: Excessive promotional statements about your own site.
Promotional efforts
Instructing others on how to game the Scour rewards system (Youtube videos, blog posts etc…)
Email Invites:Emails sent to users who you have never had any previous interaction with.
Emails that cause multiple spam complaints from users.
No Self Invited Accounts or Multiple Accounts Under A Single UserNotes:
Any banned account within your friend network will deduct points earned from that friend. Please do not violate the rewards system. It is something we are trying to offer to you as an incentive. Don’t abuse it.
Really, don’t abuse the guidelines because scour lets you earn some easy money and you don’t want to miss on such an opportunity, do you?
Click here to join Scour and remember to refer your friends after you have joined.
HAPPY EARNINGS !
